For those to young to remember, SEGA once tried to dupe people into buying their system over Super Nintendo by claiming the Genesis/Mega Drive could do “blast processing”. To prove their case they used footage of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in comparison to Super Mario Kart’s title screen. Funny how the world works as now

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Back in 2010 I was a big fan of the first Epic Mickey, it brought back the scale and design of platform games long since forgotten from the N64 era. It had its faults to be sure, though some were a bit overblown. Still Epic Mickey was a title with a history that predated its

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It’s pretty hard to find someone who likes video games and doesn’t like Mario, or at least some version of him. Classic sidescrolling Mario has proven to be so big that the last console release in this style sold over 26 million copies. Dwarfing every other Mario and most every video game from the last

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It has been a couple days since Nintendo launched its latest console on the market and having been playing it since, I thought now would be a good time to weigh in on the pros and cons of the system, the launch, and the games. Also whether or not you should consider buying one at

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If you have been paying attention to video games at all these past few years then you should know that every year Activision releases a new Call of Duty game, but each year the title is switched between Infinity Ward developed games and Treyarch developed games. Each developers game follows their own continuity and storyline

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Despite having three games devoted to the last protagonist, Ezio, Ubisoft Montreal has been quietly toiling away at the proper third chapter in the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed franchise shortly after part II was finished. While you would assume this would lead to a larger, more polished climax to the building storyline, you would sadly

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As Halo 3 finished production and released, the creator studio Bungie decided they were going independent of Microsoft. This naturally cast the whole future of the series in doubt, but rather then wait or keep people in the dark, Microsoft immediately announced the formation a brand new studio whose sole purpose in life was to

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While Developer Arkane Studios may not be a household name to many gamers, they certainly made their presence known with the first information of Dishonored in Game Informer and wowed many a critic at E3 2012. Their background only includes a meager 2 games before, and their Austin based studio had only previously helped with

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NiGHTS is a very curious franchise. Originally released for the Sega Saturn as their flagship title, it never quite took off. Part of this is likely due to most SEGA fans waiting for a 3D sonic title from Sonic Team, also because quite frankly NiGHTS is a very confusing game that does a mostly poor

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